October 10, Thursday "The Making of a New Constitution
in Kenya," special talk with H.E. Dr. Yusuf A.
Nzibo, Thursday Kenyan Ambassador to the United States,
3:30, Room 201, International Center.

October 16, Wednesday "Hungry Farmers: A National
Security Issue for All," Nineteenth Annual World
Food Day Teleconference with Professor Michael Lipton,
Sussex University Poverty Research Unit 12:00 noon,
Room 201, International Center. For more information,
please contact Rob Glew at the CASID office: (517)
353-4818.

October 17, Thursday "Truth and Reconciliation
in Recent South and Southern African Political Transitions:
A Comparative Assessment,"African Studies Center
Brown Bag with John Daniel, Human Science Research
Council (South Africa), 12:00 noon, Room 201, International
Center.

MSU ANNOUNCEMENTS

Transportation to ASA

The African Studies Center is considering reserving
vans for transportation to the African Studies Association
Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, December 5-8, 2002.

Vans will be reserved based on the number of people
interested in attending and the number of valid drivers
available to drive them. The trip is approximately
10 hours. There will be a sign-up sheet in the African
Studies Center beginning October 1, 2002. Please stop
by or e-mail Lisa Beckum, at beckum@msu.edu to sign
up, or call (517) 353-1700.

This course will introduce students to the practice
and theory of history, using South African (and comparative
American) examples. Themes include settler domination
and resistance to it, and related issues of racism,
culture, gender, health, migrant labor and environment.
The main focus will be South Africa but opportunities
will arise to compare similar themes in American history,
including student protest movements and leaders (Mandela,
Tutu, Martin Luther King). Students will learn the
core historical skills of research, critical thinking
and clear writing and how to analyze primary and secondary
sources using a range of interesting examples from
memoirs, apartheid laws, Lansing anti-apartheid movement
archives and black newspapers to political cartoons,
posters and videos. They also will learn to appreciate
the different ways historians interpret the past. Students
will be required to do two short papers, book review
and a longer paper. For further information contact
Dr Peter Limb, phone: (517) 432-4983; e-mail: limb@msu.edu.

This course explores the background of different conflicts
and issues that have been prominent in the news in
recent years. The course will enhance understanding
of the historical underpinnings of these events, the
course also aims to make students aware of the differing
uses of historical facts and memories, and of the many
ways that history can help fuel political controversies.
The events and issues with which this version of the
course deals are: 1) Christian Muslim conflict in Nigeria,
2) US involvement in Somalia, 3) The bombing of the
Sudan and placing that country on the list of terrorist
states, and 4) AIDS/HIV controversy in South Africa.
For further information contact: Professor Alaine
S. Hutson, phone: (517) 355-7500; e- mail: hutsona@msu.edu.

MSU Faculty Publications

Folu Ogundimu

Goran Hyden, Michael Leslie, and Folu F. Ogundimu are
the editors of the book Media and Democracy in Africa
, 2002. New Brunswick (U.S.A.) and London (U.K.): Transaction
Publishers (ISBN: 0-7658-0148-5).

The editors hope that readers will find the volume an
important contribution to the study of the media, democracy,
and the political, economic, and social transformations
taking place in sub-Sahara Africa. Reviews, recommendations
for acquisition by university libraries, and adoption
in courses at universities will be greatly appreciated.
For information regarding this publication, please
contact Folu F. Ogundimu, Professor of Journalism,
MSU at (517) 353-6459; e-mail: ogundimu@msu.edu.

Graduate student named Health Research Analyst Teresa
(Teri) Swezey has accepted a position as a research
health analyst in the Substance Abuse Treatment and
Evaluation Programs at Research Triangle Institute
(RTI). Teri is a graduate student in the Department
of Sociology with an African emphasis, particularly
focusing on gender power relations and HIV/AIDS in
Sub-Saharan Africa.

GRANTS

ALO/USAID - Special Request for Applications The Association
Liaison Office for University Cooperation in Development
(ALO), in cooperation with the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID), issues a Special Request for Applications
(RFA), which is posted at the ALO Web site, http://www.aascu.org/alo.
This RFA names six areas of strategic interest for
partnerships between higher education institutions
in the U.S. and in a USAID- assisted country: higher
education leadership and administrative transformation;
workforce development and community colleges; agriculture
and the environment; HIV/AIDS and human and institutional
capacity development; teacher training; and Islamic
schools. ALO intends to make up to 33 awards at up
to $125,000 each. Applications are due November 19,
2002

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

World Food Day Symposium

Democratic Reform in Africa: Impact on Governance and
Poverty Alleviation

Cornell University will host a World Food Day Symposium
beginning Thursday, October 24 to Saturday, October
26, 2002.

This symposium is designed to highlight these types
of issues that cut across both the political and economic
reform spectra, and to identify how well they are being
addressed. It is also designed to identify obstacles
to democratic reform and areas of future focus. To
accomplish this goal, the symposium will have two main
key sub-texts.

The first is the examination of institutions and their
role in governance and poverty alleviation. The second
focuses on key actors in the processes of both democratic
reform and economic development. The symposium aims
to contribute to policy analysis of law and development,
and on how to increase the level of control the disadvantaged
populations exercise over their lives. It will also
analyze successful civil society strategies that employ
the law to advance good governance and poverty reduction.
The Keynote Address will be on October 24th by Justice
Johannes Kreigler, Justice, Constitutional Court, South
Africa.